I’ve had a great Bank Holiday weekend, just the right amount of seeing friends, DIY and doing cool new stuff. We went to Walthamstow Stadium on Saturday night to watch the Greyhound racing. It was so much fun and I even broke even! We also finally had the time to do the Parkland Walk from Finsbury Park to Ally Pally. It was such a hot day we had to make some emergency refreshment breaks along the way at the Boogaloo in Highgate and the Village in Muswell Hill. And today I made my first item in my lovely new sewing…
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Today we made a day trip to France to pick up some booze for us and fags for my sister. We spent a couple of hours driving round Calais, completely bewildered by the local tradition of wedding parties driving around the city centre tooting their horns! Saturday must be wedding day over there. Then we drove further up the coast to Dunkirk where we had something to eat in a cafe in the main square and people watched. It was so lovely being out of London, even if it was just for a couple of hours. And now we have…
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Today we went to Columbia Road Flower Market. I hadn’t been in years but it had hardly changed. We bought some new houseplants and got loads of good advice from the flower sellers – I’m never buying from Homebase again! Columbia Road Flower Market I loved the window display of Fred Bare Headwear (great name too!). We also treated ourselves to some delicious cakes from Treacle. Then we went for a lovely walk around Hoxton, Banksy spotting.
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I was lucky enough to test this pattern a couple of months ago. The pattern was really easy to understand and took a couple of hours to make from scratch. I used some of my favourite Cath Kidston fabric for the body. Buy them here.
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I finally have the chance to post some pics of my lovely moo stickers. I ordered a little book of my favourite flickr pics last month. They are lovely, as is the packaging! Too nice to use in fact.
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Your Blogging Type Is the Private Performer Your blog is your stage – with your visitors your adoring fans. At least, that’s how you write with your witty one liners. And while you like attention, you value your privacy. You’re likely to have an anonymous blog – or turn off comments. What’s Your Blogging Personality?
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I’m sure I’m not the only person to be 100% freaked out by the phenomenon that is facebook. Friends Reunited – fine; Twitter – fine; MySpace – fine; but facebook is just too freaky. I am tagging people that I haven’t seen since High School, Uni and previous jobs that I haven’t spoken to in years. And, quite frankly, if we haven’t spoken in years, surely that was for a reason?! The more time I spend on it, the more friends I find, and subsequently find out what they are up to. It feels like school all over again. Am…
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So I finally had some time to try and make a yo-yo. I bought three different varieties and sizes so I could make both regular round ones and flower shaped ones. The Clover Yo-yo maker is kind of cool but the instructions were obviously translated from Japanese and a little hard to follow, especially at the end. My first one didn’t turn out too badly though, made out of some Orla Kiely fabric. Any advice on securing the thread gratefully received!
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Hooray, home at last after an epic journey. We spent yesterday wandering around Cowes (another of my favourite towns on the Island) in the beautiful sunshine. I’m so happy that the weather was mainly good during our week away! Anyway, visiting Cowes gave me the opportunity to see if my favourite shop had any new things to buy. Luckily it did and I came away with a bag of stuff to fit in the remaining small hole in the car. Paper lanterns for our garden, beautiful girly pink stickers (for no purpose other than I liked them), candle holders for…